E.E.O.C. v. COM. OF MASS.

No. 88-1226.

864 F.2d 933 (1988)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beatrice Valdez with whom Charles A. Shanor, Gen. Counsel, Gwendolyn Young Reams, Associate Gen. Counsel, and Lorraine C. Davis, Asst. Gen. Counsel, were on brief for plaintiff, appellant.

Despena Fillios Billings, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen., was on brief for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), acting on behalf of thirty-five named individuals, brought suit against Massachusetts under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq (1982). The EEOC claimed that since 1981 the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles had discriminated against older people by refusing to let anyone over the age of 35 take a qualifying examination for the...

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